{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=AEC6A218-78E1-4096-A7A2-FE9292A10834", "These Disgraced Wall Street Kingpins Are Living Quite Nicely 5 Years After Crisis", "2013-09-11", "2013", "2013-09", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "These Disgraced Wall Street Kingpins Are Living Quite Nicely 5 Years After Crisis \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t By:\u00a0 Alison Fitzgerald \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tWednesday, September 11, 2013\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tFive years after the near-collapse of the nation\u2019s financial system, the economy continues a slow recovery marred by high unemployment, hesitant consumers and sluggish business investment.\r\nMany of the top Wall Street bankers who were largely responsible for the disaster \u2014 and whose companies either collapsed or accepted billions in government bailouts \u2014 are also unemployed. But since they walked away from the disaster with millions, they\u2019re juggling their ample free time between mansions and golf, skiing and tennis.  Meantime, the major banks that survived the crisis, largely because they were saved with taxpayer money after being deemed \u201ctoo big to fail,\u201d are now bigger and more powerful than ever.\r\nThe Center for Public Integrity looked at what happened to five former Wall Street kingpins to see what they are up to these days. None are in jail, nor are any criminal charges expected to be filed.\r\nCertainly none are hurting for money.\r\nTake Richard Fuld. Five years after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the 158-year-old company he ran, collapsed under the weight of bad investments and sent a tidal wave of panic through the global financial system, Fuld is living comfortably.\r\nHe has a mansion in Greenwich, Conn., a 40-plus-acre ranch in Sun Valley, Idaho, as well as a five-bedroom home in Jupiter Island, Fla. He no longer has a place in Manhattan, since he sold his Park Avenue apartment in 2009 for $25.87 million.\r\nThe other four bankers the Center caught up with \u2014 Jimmy Cayne (Bear Stearns), Stanley O\u2019Neal (Merrill Lynch), Chuck Prince (Citigroup) and Ken Lewis (Bank of America) are also living in quiet luxury.\r\nContinue reading here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=AEC6A218-78E1-4096-A7A2-FE9292A10834"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6600759699940681, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}